Solid-state physicist's Green's function

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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: A lot has happened in the field of condensed matter physics since the original edition of "Green's functions for Solid State Physicists" was published in 1974. Nevertheless, the book has helped introduce several generations of condensed matter physics graduate students to the very powerful ideas of quantum many-body theory and some of their applications, particularly those in the physics of itinerant magnetism and superconductivity that have now come to be called "the correlated electron problem." In preparing for the reprinted edition, two new chapters have been added to the original text to provide an introduction to the recent developments in this branch of condensed matter physics. Chapter 11 focuses on the understanding of the Kondo problem, which grew out of the exact solutions developed in the mid-1970s. The accompanying growth of experimental work culminating in the discovery of the heavy-fermion superconductors gave substance to the idea that Coulomb repulsion between electrons in a narrow-band metal can actually lead to attraction between the electrons and resulting instabilities at low temperatures to either a superconducting or an antiferromagnetic state. This book is in English. It is richly illustrated and provides a detailed introduction to the knowledge of Green's functions used by solid-state physicists.